Non-refillable bottle.



No. 828,756. PATBNTED AUG;.14, 1906. T- H. MAGKIN & M. E. HAMMER. NON-RBFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN.1B. 1906.

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THOMAS H. MACKIN AND MILTON E. HAMMER, OF HAVRE DE GRACE, MARYLAND.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Patented Aug. 14, 1906.

Application filed January 18, 1906 Serial No. 296.682.

To all whom, it 77Z/EI/Z/ concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS H. MAoKIN and MILTON E. HAMMER, citizens of the United States, residing at Havre de Grace, in the county of Harford and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in N on-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention pertains toimprovements in bottle-valves, otherwise styled non-refilh able bottles.

It has for its object particularly to guard against the possibility of refilling the bottle, after once emptying the same, unauthorizedly or by others than the proprietors or original fillers and to carry out that purpose in a simple, economic, and effective manner.

Said invention consists of certain structural features substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed, and specifically pointed out by the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of our invention, Figure 1 is a broken sectional elevation thereof as applied to a bottle. Figs. 2 and 3 are disassembled plan views of partitions or disks arranged in the bottle-neck.

In the disclosure of our invention we arrange in the neck 1 of the bottle, the inner end of which is somewhat contracted, as at 1, a number of spherical valves or balls 2 2" 2 referably of varying sizes. The larger or lieavier valve or ball 2 is normally seated upon the contraction or ledge 1 at the inner end of the bottle-neck and which while adapted to effectively close or guard the entrance to the bottle proper yet will not interfere with the proper or requisite flow of the liquid or contents thereof when emptying the bottle.

The intermediate valve or ball 2 is readily floated in attempting to pour liquid into the bottle or the refilling of the latter for guarding against such a contingency, while the valve 2*, with the valve 2 is adapted to guard the other portion of the bottle-neck against the inserting therein of any improvised instrument or contrivance in an attempt to reach and dislod e the main valve 2 and to accomplish the thus guarding of the bottleneck and said main valve in an effective manner or so as to prevent any possibility of gaining access to the interior of the bottle in that way. These valves or balls 2 2 are seated in pieces or plugs 2 2 respectively, preferably of porcelain or glass and suitably fittedin the bottle-neck and superposed one above the other. The lower latter plug or valve-seat is upheld or retained against displacement by an internal bead 3 on the bottle-neck, suflicient space, however, being provided inward from the valve-seat 2 resting thereon, to permit the requisite play or movement of the valve 2 in opening and closing the entrance to the liquid-containing chamber of the bottle.

The lower surface of each of the plugs 2 2 is provided with a continuous circular arrangement of passages or recesses 5 each of which is flared or widened laterally toward its inner or delivery end and which also deepens in the same direction and tapers toward the longitudinal center of its bottom. The purpose of this construction of passage is to provide for the delivery of the liquid contents of the bottle as the same are beingpoured past or by the ball-valves 2 2 as the latter, it will be noted, would at that time otherwise close the bore or central passage 5 of the plugs 2 2 these lateral passages 5 however, opening into the central bore beyond the seating or engaging points of said balls or valves, and therefore permit the entrance of the liquid. Also arranged in the bottle-neck near its outer or upper end is a third glass or porcelain plug or disk 4, suitably packed in place and provided with a number of orifices 4 for the outflow or passage of the liquid or bottle contents in discharging or emptying the latter. The passages or orifices 4* in the plu or disk 4 are, however, of less depth than t e thickness of the latter, stopping about midway the same and merging thereabove into a common central opening 4' therein, providing thereby for the greater unobstructed flow of the liquid as the latter reaches the pouring end of the bottle-neck and at the same time lessening the opportunity of the surreptitious insertion of an instrument throu h said openings or orifices into contact with the adjoinin ball or valve.

e claim A non-refillable bottle having a number of spherical valves or balls and a number of tubular plugs having flared seats in their normally upper surfaces for said valves, with the taper of said seats at the extreme lower ends thereof, said plugs each having also in its inverted position as and for the purpose GX-I lower surface a continuous circular arran eplained.

ment of liquid-passages, each being latera 1y In testimony whereof we have signed our flared toward its inner terminal and deepennames to this specification in the presence of 5 ing toward said terminal and also tapering two subscribing witnesses.

toward the lon itudinal center of its bottom, THOMAS H. MACKIN. which thus en arged flared terminals open MILTON EHAMMER. through the lower tapered portions of said Witnesses:

seats, beyond the valve seating or engaging AUGUST PETERSON,

1o portions of said plugs when said plugs are in BENNETT S. JONES. 

